Following an E-Series drive failure the drive is removed from the Dynamic Disk Pool
Applies to
- NetApp E-Series
- SANtricity OS 11.70.1R1 and below
Issue
- An impending drive does not complete the drive evacuation (COPY) process to Dynamic Disk Pool (DDP) preservation capacity, before it is failed by the controllers due to failing a write I/O operation.
B:8/21/23, 11:46:13 AM (11:46:13) 59057 227e Drive copy started - Shelf 99, Bay 4
B:8/21/23, 11:46:13 AM (11:46:13) 59056 2286 Drive copy triggered by a drive detected impending failure - Shelf 99, Bay 4
- When the drive is failed, the copy operation transitions to reconstruction operation since the drive is no longer available. The reconstruction is kicked off for the remaining DDP stripes on the drive.
B:8/21/23, 11:47:20 AM (11:47:20) 59068 226c Drive failure - Shelf 99, Bay 4 - Cause: 3 = Write failure; Drive WWN: 5000c500cXXXXf; SN: XXXXXXXXXX <--CRITICAL
A:8/21/23, 11:47:24 AM (11:47:24) 59078 3807 Disk pool drive reconstruction started - Disk Pool Pool_1
Shelf 2, Drawer 4, Bay 11
- After reconstruction completes to preservation, the drive is removed logically from the DDP, and the preservation alert does not clear.
RECOVERY-GURU-PROCEDURES.HTML
indicates followings:DISK_POOL_CAPACITY_DEPLETED
DISK_POOL_RECONSTRUCTION_DRIVE_COUNT_BELOW_THRESHOLD